The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Sharpe | 2 | 1611 (convene); 1640 (colleg) |
| Scharpe | 1 | 1633 (braser) |
| Shairp | 1 | 1544 (cale) |
| Sharp | 1 | 1648 (agitat) |